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N.Korea 'Has New Uranium Enrichment Facility'
Chosun Ilbo ^ | 10/20/11

Posted on 10/19/2011 9:15:12 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

N.Korea 'Has New Uranium Enrichment Facility'

North Korea built a new underground uranium enrichment facility in Tongchang, North Pyongan Province in 2006, separately from the existing one at Yongbyon in the same province, Liberty Forward Party lawmaker Park Sun-young claimed Wednesday.

Park said she had the information from a North Korean Army lieutenant colonel she only identified as Lee (52), who she claimed supervised security when the regime built the new facility.

"Construction began in 2001 and was completed in 2006," Park said. "After a test run in 2007, it began extracting enriched uranium in 2009."

"The Yongbyon facility is an empty structure that was built in preparation for an international inspection, but the new facility in Tongchang is the real uranium enrichment facility," she said. She explained that this is a different place again from the Tongchang-ri missile test range in the same province.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.chosun.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: heu; nkorea; uranium

1 posted on 10/19/2011 9:15:22 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

P!


2 posted on 10/19/2011 9:17:00 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Unexpected!


3 posted on 10/19/2011 9:32:09 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
Since NK told James Kelly that they have HEU facilities back in 2003(?,) lots of sophisticated people would rather not take it seriously. Lots of experts, and officials. They viewed it as a ghost "hardliners" loved to whip up into existence. They couldn't be so wrong if they had some elementary understanding of NK regime. On the other hand, it took more than 10 years for them to finally accept that NK had no intention of giving up nukes at all.

Stupid people never go away. I am sure most of them are still at the same jobs with the same biased outlook. All national policies have been subject to sustaining "Godd*mn" bubble in Wall St.. These experts were only happy to oblige. Now that bubbles popped and NK remain unchanged, they suddenly saw the light. Nothing to shield their flawed view from harsh reality.

4 posted on 10/19/2011 9:54:51 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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Whatcha wanna bet they did this with Iranian cooperation...?


5 posted on 10/19/2011 9:55:53 PM PDT by edpc (Former Normalcy Bias Victim)
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Paging Captain Renault...


6 posted on 10/19/2011 10:26:08 PM PDT by RedCell (Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
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To: edpc

“Whatcha wanna bet they did this with Iranian cooperation...?”

Actually, it’s been more the other way around. Iran has asked for N. Korea’s help. But they do work together.


7 posted on 10/20/2011 4:05:14 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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